Changing tastes, higher costs ‘stitching up’ tailoring sector

Ramlochan Rajcumar and his wife

Jason Kingston still reflects on those days when, as a young man, he wore tailored trousers, cut and sewn to fit the contours of his lower body. He recalls that he wore these with considerable pride, not unmindful of the role his neatly tailored trousers played in “attracting the girls.”

Now in his mid-sixties, Kingston recalls that up to maybe 30 years ago, visits to the tailor were par for the course for young men wanting to look their best, whether for work or for night life. He recalls too that those were the days when tailors and dressers alike kept track